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| Main Entry: | perishable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | liable to spoil, rot |
| Synonyms: | decaying, short-lived, unstable, decomposable, destructible, easily spoiled |
| Antonyms: | continuation, endurance |
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| Main Entry: | temporary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lasting only a short while |
| Synonyms: | acting, ad hoc, alternate, brief, changeable, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fugitive, impermanent, interim, limited, makeshift*, momentary, mortal, passing, perishable, pro tempore, provisional, short, short-lived, slapdash*, stopgap*, substitute, summary, supply, transient, transitory, unstable, volatile, Band-Aid, ad interim, for the time being, fugacious, make-do, overnight, pro tem, provisory, shifting, temp, unfixed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mortal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | human |
| Synonyms: | animate, corporeal, earthly, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, finite, frail, impermanent, momentary, passing, perishable, precarious, temporal, transient, weak, worldly, bipedal, creatural, ecce homo, fugacious, sublunary |
| Antonyms: | animal, immortal, inhuman, plant |
| Main Entry: | groceries |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
| Synonyms: | comestibles, produce, viands, edibles, foodstuffs, perishables, staples, vegetables |
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| Main Entry: | transient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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Adjectives: |
transient, ad interim, brief, brisk, cursory, deciduous, ephemeral, evanescent, extemporaneous, fleeting, flying, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, momentary, mortal, passing, perishable, picaresque, precarious, pressed for time, preterient, provisional, provisory, quick, shifting, short-lived, slippery, spasmodic, sudden, summary, temporal, temporary, transitive, transitory
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